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Re: Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

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Post by davidcollantes » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:17 PM UTC

Not to nickpick, but it seems GitHub centric. Is there a way it could be used simply with git (running on a VPS, on the user space, that is, accessed via SSH)?

Re: Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

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Post by devansh0718 » Sun, May 24, 2026, 8:43 PM UTC

just curious, is there even a need for that? It's good for learning though

Re: Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

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Post by arashThr » Mon, May 25, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

swyx wrote: post #9

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #7

Very cool, fills a niche. Could you put a link to the demo right in the README.md? It's hard to click through on mobile

> fills a niche theres a lot of git based CMSes out there. what is the niche you perceive? (not being critical just want to see what you see)

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Re: Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:44 AM UTC

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #5

You could have told your LLM to NOT use node/js/npm and made the thing far more secure from day one. Npm is a security nightmare. Also you say it’s git-based but it depends on GitHub. GitHub is not git. What if I want to use another git forge or god forbid a local repo? I have a similar thing but it doesn’t assume GitHub and is coded in Python (by hand, it’s like 100 lines of Python and flask). Serves my needs! Simpl…

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Re: Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

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Post by arashThr » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:55 AM UTC

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #5

You could have told your LLM to NOT use node/js/npm and made the thing far more secure from day one. Npm is a security nightmare. Also you say it’s git-based but it depends on GitHub. GitHub is not git. What if I want to use another git forge or god forbid a local repo? I have a similar thing but it doesn’t assume GitHub and is coded in Python (by hand, it’s like 100 lines of Python and flask). Serves my needs! Simpl…

Author here. You're completely right about the GitHub specific implementation. I made a mistake in the title! Right now only GitHub auth is supported. Although the design should work with any Git repo down the line. Sorry for causing confusion. Unfortunately I can't edit the title now. I will add a comment to explain this limitation.

As for the tech stack, I chose JS because the main goal was a lightweight web UI that handles online editing and easy image uploads, and JS sounded like a better fit. Having said that, I'm also not happy with current state of npm and I will look into an implementation with Go and tmpl.

Re: Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

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Post by arashThr » Mon, May 25, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC

(Author here) Correction for the title: "Front-end interface for Hugo blogs on GitHub" would be right title.

To clarify, this web application only works with repositories hosted on GitHub. Authentication and repository updates are handled entirely through the GitHub API, which allows the app to remain completely stateless, secure, and configuration-free.

Although the idea of making it more generic by supporting different git providers or self-hosted VPS instances is appealing (hence the initial title), there are already much better solutions out there for that use case (like DecapCMS). The goal here was to trade generality for total zero-setup simplicity.